Crossword-Solution: ARGOT 5 letters, 150 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Argot n. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves,
tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

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ARGOT anagram GATOR, GROAT

We have 150 clues for the answer “ARGOT”

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Arcane vocabulary 1 answer
Conventional slang of a group. 1 answer
Cousin of shoptalk. 1 answer
Criminal slang 1 answer
Criminals' slang 1 answer
Criminals' slang, e.g. 1 answer
Crookspeak 1 answer
Crookspeak, e.g. 1 answer
Distinctive vocabulary 1 answer
Distinctive vocabulary group 1 answer
Exclusive lingo 1 answer
FRENCH thieves (sl.) 1 answer
Gang's slanguage 1 answer
Groupspeak, e.g. 1 answer
Idiomatic vocabulary 1 answer
In-group jargon 1 answer
In-group language 1 answer
In-group lingo 1 answer
Industry talk 1 answer
Insider lingo 1 answer
Insider speaking 1 answer
Insider terminology 1 answer
Insider's language 1 answer
Insider's vocabulary 1 answer
Insiders' talk 1 answer
JARGON of class or group 1 answer
Jargon from a mixed-up Florida athlete? 1 answer
Jargon, slang 1 answer
Jargon; patois 1 answer
Job-specific vocabulary 1 answer
LANGUAGE of thieves 1 answer
Language confusing to laymen 1 answer
Lawyerese, e.g. 1 answer
Laymen don't understand it 1 answer
Legalese, say 1 answer
Lingo (GATOR anagram) 1 answer
One may end in "ese" 1 answer
Part of a newbie's learning curve 1 answer
Pedagese, e.g. 1 answer
Professional slang 1 answer
Professional vocabulary 1 answer
Rap lingo, e.g. 1 answer
Rap talk, i.e. 1 answer
SLANG of class or group 1 answer
Secret vocabulary 1 answer
Shop lingo 1 answer
Shoptalk vocabulary 1 answer
Slang of a class. 1 answer
Slang of a particular class. 1 answer
Slang of a particular group. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARGOT (5)

Boutney, author of _Dictionnaire de l'Argot des Typographes_, is unable to explain after twenty years' search.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1995
Once she heard the client cry, almost scream: "By God! Joe, I thought Claudine had chased him around there to DO me!" And, instantly, followed Louden's voice: "STEADY, HAPPY, STEADY!" The name "Claudine" startled her; and although she had had no comprehension of the argot of Happy Fear, the sense of a mysterious catastrophe oppressed her; she was sure that something horrible had happened.
The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1996
She had not lived in New York without hearing its argot, and she realised that the exclamation which had appeared delirium to Mrs.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006
Those who wish to study it as it at present exists can do no better than consult _Les Mémoires de Vidocq_, where a multitude of words in Argot are to be found, and also several songs, the subjects of which are thievish adventures.
The Zincali George Borrow 2019
But I don't think it was the blind hurry of the people, their argot, and their grand ignorance of things beyond their immediate interests that displeased me so much as a study of the daily papers of Chicago.
American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1997

Quotes with ARGOT (3)

In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk... I have even had the awkward androgynes, the unsexed dishes of the day of the *tables d'hote* of Montmartre. Like any vulgar follower of fashion, like any member of the herd, I have m…
Jean Lorrain Monsieur De Phocas
... the presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people of my world, all my unhappy peers, have come to irritate, oppress and sadden me with their noisy and empty chatter, their monstrous and boundless vanity, their even more monstrous egotism, their club gossip... the endless repetition of opinions already formed and judgme…
Jean Lorrain Monsieur De Phocas
Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.
Victor Hugo Les Miserables, tome I/3
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 343 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).